2020 Shortlisted Stories

fIVE Short stories that ‘speak eloquently to the human condition’

  • Erica Sugo Anyadike (Tanzania) for ‘How to Marry An African President’ published in adda: Commonwealth Stories (2019)

o   Read ‘How to Marry An African President’

  • Chikodili Emelumadu (Nigeria & UK) for ‘What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata’ published in The Shadow

    Booth: Vol.2 (2018)

o   Read ‘What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata’

  • Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for ‘Fisherman's Stew’, published in The Sewanee Review (2019)

o  Read ‘Fisherman's Stew

  • Rémy Ngamije (Rwanda & Namibia) for ‘The Neighbourhood Watch’, published in The Johannesburg Review of Books (2019)

o   Read ‘The Neighbourhood Watch’

  • Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria & UK) for ‘Grace Jones’ from "Nudibranch", published by Dialogue Books (2019)

o  Read ‘Grace Jones’